[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
I kind of doubt the "suitcase nukes", if they exist, would destroy 4 city blocks.

Fat Man, the plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, had 6 kilograms of plutonium. It essentially wiped out the city (21 kiloton bLast)

If you can get critical mass from 2kg, I think the boom would be at least in the kiloton range.

Phoenix-D

Well, if not 4 maybe 6, but it doesn't make Manhatan an oversized football camp. It have been estimated that concrete buildings are capable of stoping the bLast wave from these mini-nukes. Also, it might be less than 2kg, though I think I remember it was 2kg. I'll do a search on this to see if I find this info Online. I got this info originally from a military magazine.

Oh, and the nukes dropped in Japan didn't destroy the whole city in either case. I'll have to get some numbers before saying what percentage survived from each city.